Word: quieted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June day of 1927 is, then, an epic moment in an epic history. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
...were brighter than his days. At about 10 p. m. his wife, Marcelle, would call, with his brother, Norman, and his sister-in-law. (Visiting hours were theoretically from 7 to 8, but not for the Carrolls.) The visitors left usually about midnight, and then Room 19 would be,, quiet until, in the morning, three sharp buzzes told the nurse that the patient was awake. But he took little interest in anything except the Manhattan newspapers, which usually came out from his room with theatrical and social items clipped from them...
...waiting in the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Radio Announcer Graham McNamee was telling the rest of the land: "Here comes the guard of honor ahead of Lindbergh's car. . . . The cavalrymen with drawn sabres make a dashing picture. . . . Here's the boy. . . . He comes forward unassuming, quiet, a little stoop in his shoulders. . . . Now I will turn the microphone to the reviewing stand, where President Coolidge and the boy Lindbergh stand quietly together...
...some present it seemed that Nora Bayes black bottomed better than Prince Henry; but when the moment of judging came they "gave the little boy a hand." Florence, stamping her small right foot for quiet, awarded to His Royal Highness the first prize, held it aloft before the crowd, explained in mock Negro dialect: "Dis y'ere fust prize am an ostrich feddah suit o' cat's pajamas...
...Study to be quiet" was Izaak Walton's grand old fishing axion, and if there was ever a disciple of this school, the President is such a one. In that study he has perfected himself, and his competence has stood him in good stead, as much in dodging the lures of his baiters as in filling each day the larder of the White House in South Dakota...